UNISYS in South Africa: Computing Apartheid with the Power of 2

C E Brief

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Edition

Vol. 16 No. 2

Creator

Richard Leonard; Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

1987

Type of Item

Pamphlet

Length/duration

4 pages

Description

The Brief discusses the strategic role of U.S. computers in South African government agencies and in many sectors of the South African economy and focuses on the second-largest U.S. computer company, Unisys. The Carter Administration banned computer sales to South African military and police, which were later loosened under the Reagan administration. The Congress widened the list of proscribed agencies that enforce apartheid. It is difficult to enforce this ban on sales to certain government agencies, and the South African government boasts about evading the computer ban. The document reports the history of religious organizations' shareholder resolutions with Unisys and its two predecessors,...

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Publisher

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Organization

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.

Collection

Private collection of David Wiley and Christine Root